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05/06/2006 10:54:23
 
 
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05/06/2006 09:26:28
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01126978
Message ID:
01127101
Views:
12
>>>Really? In my books it stand for "oll korrect" from the 1830's and for short it was brought to OK never Okay. ;-)
>>
>>
>>Etymology is suspect but I always thought it came from "oll korrekt". So you are OK.
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay
>
>I thought it came from an Indian (Choctaw) word, but I think I might have learned that from a Tom Lehrer song. <g>
>
>Tamar



Choctaw is also mentioned in the article I linked to. It is one of the possible options.


Alex Feldstein, MCP, Microsoft MVP
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